Broadsides
Subtitle: The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815
Publisher: Wiley
Published: August 31, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780471078357
First sentence: BLASTED DOWN BY the hammer of the sea, the handful of ships buried themselves to their hawseholse in the long Atlantic swells, only to rise again, white foam exploding over their bows.